From his son Raise a Native and through his daughter and Dam of Northern Dancer the Grey Ghost dominates the Blood of today's TB. Very few are truly great Race Horses and become even greater Sires. The great Ruffian was by a Native Dancer daughter, Native Dancer will always be at the TOP of my List.
Many are just type sour people and are just pills in general. I like them all but one must remember that RA was beat by Zenyatta's Stablemate and caused the connections of RA to back out of the Race RA was to face Zenyatta. The RA connections were well aware that although a nice Filly Zenyatta could run circles around her stablemate and still beat her. After witnessing that the connections of RA wanted no part of Zenyatta. With Zenyatta being breed to the A. P. Indy son Bernardini we can look forward to her offspring. All the "this one is greatest, that one was the best" and on and on they go means nothing. Take things for what they are in their time and let it be. Last, what the many chumps of today say means nothing, History will be the judge of Zenyatta and she is one for The Ages.
He has really did little this year in the competition he has run against. With the field he had today in the Wood, if they field many more Races of the quality they will lose their Grade I Status. f he was the Horse to beat in the Derby he should have destroyed this very weak field. People question if the Factor can run a distance and that has always been my question with Uncle Mo no matter what his Breeding says. He may be a good mile or mile and a sixteenth Horse but does not look to be able to run the longer distances.